6 books by American writers you must read!

Cicely Tyson as Miss Jane Pittman. A 1974 film based on the book listed below, directed by John Korty.

Beforehand I want to leave a question I wrote on my MA thesis, which is explanatory of the title and shows my position on the following matter:

The (…) division expressed by different ethnonyms in U.S. society, such as African American, Latino American, Asian American, and Native American, presents itself as a dilemma. Even if it seems to honor the different ethnicities in the U.S. society, it is questionable why people of northern European origin have no ethnonym before “American”. It makes one believe that everyone else who does not fall into this category deviates from the norm, which whiteness represents. ( Almeida, Joana, “The Universal Language of Pop Culture, Spike Lee’s films as narratives of counter-memory”,2021, Coimbra’s University)

Now, I am writing this article after completing exactly this MA in English Culture and Literature. As a European woman, I had previously conceived ideas about what the MA would hold for me. Would I be reading Shakespeare, Hemingway, Joyce, T.S. Elliot, Mark Twain? My mind was eager to dwell on them, to be inspired by the most magnificent names in English Literature that I had vaguely heard during high school.

When I entered the doors of the English Department, something else awaited me. On the one hand, I was disappointed and dismal as the American Literature plan did not include…